By the end of the month, Canada will have a new prime minister and cabinet to set the path forward for the economy. At some point, said PM is going to have to make several tough calls when it comes to how Canada faces the U.S. tariff war, global volatility, and shifting trade flows. As... Read More
Category: Canadian Agricultural Policy
The Manitoba government has announced provincial funding for a top-up to the AgriStability program that was proposed by federal Agriculture Minister Kody Blois prior to the federal election campaign. Premier Wab Kinew announced $10.7 million to match federal AgriStability funding during a visit to the Maple Leaf Foods hog processing plant at Brandon, Man. on... Read More
CNH Industrial, the parent company of Case IH and New Holland, as well as other brands, has announced it is temporarily halting all shipments from North American plants and European plants as of April 1, 2025. A statement on the decision to ground shipments was made just ahead of the so-called "Liberation Day" tariff announcement... Read More
Tyler Fulton, a cow-calf producer from Birtle, Man., is the newly-elected president of the Canadian Cattle Association. Fulton steps into the role at a critical time for Canada's integrated beef supply chain with the U.S. — an issue he sees as the most pressing facing the sector, given that half of Canada’s beef production is... Read More
"Turn your obstacles into opportunities and your problems into possibilities." - Roy T. Bennett I am not sure what your plans were for U.S. "Liberation Day," but I was tied to a TV to listen to what U.S. President Trump was going to say about his tariff strategy. Through a Canadian lens, I would say... Read More
Canada and Mexico were spared new tariffs in the U.S. president's "Liberation Day" announcement on April 2. Speaking from the Rose Garden with most of his cabinet accompanying him, President Trump announced so-called "reciprocal" tariffs ranging from 10 to 50 per cent on a long list of countries starting April 9, with a baseline 10... Read More
The National Farmers Union (NFU) has named David Thompson as its new executive director, effective April 7, 2025. Thompson has worked with the NFU-Ontario for the past five years in various capacities including policy research and analysis, conducting farmer interviews and managing programs. In that time, he also coordinated the International Programs Committee (IPC) working... Read More
If tariffs are meant to deter imports by making them more expensive, eventually imports will decrease. Logic would have it, then, that depending on tariff revenue in the long-term would be folly, as it's intended to decrease over time. The tariff-income-as-monetary-policy is just one sticking point in the U.S. administration's new trade policy arc. Oliver... Read More
On March 27, RealAgriculture and the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute (CAPI) hosted a webinar to discuss the future of the Canada-U.S. trade relationship, as the Trump administration's trade agenda has become the prevailing issue in the Canadian election campaign. The webinar started with Shaun Haney getting a firmer understanding of the White House's strategy in... Read More
Vive Crop Protection has received expanded Canadian registration for AZteroid FC 390. Canadian potato growers first gained access to fungicide in 2024 to fight rhizoctonia and black scurf. The updated registration now allows sugar beet and radish growers to add the fungicide to their disease control toolboxes. Vive chief technology officer Dr. Doug Baumann says... Read More